Mercy Selects Attainia for Capital Equipment Supply Chain Solutions

CHESTERFIELD, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mercy Health Ministry has recently signed on with Attainia, a capital equipment supply chain information technology company, to enable better visibility into Mercy’s capital equipment supply chain. According to Dave Miles, Director, Capital Planning & Asset Management, Mercy is always looking for the leading technology companies that help streamline processes, eliminate duplicative efforts, and allow better coordination amongst the design team.

“The Affordable Care Act will require all hospitals to efficiently and effectively manage expenditures while diligently continuing to serve their communities”

Dave began his discussions with Attainia in 2012, started implementation in early 2013, and is pleased with the advances to his program. "Before Attainia, we struggled getting our architect partners, general contractors and Mercy stakeholders all the documentation and communication needed to be successful in our equipment planning. Attainia allows us to address each group’s most important needs earlier in the design effort. From one central software package, Attainia links all the different facets in our hospital together, whether it's Supply Chain, Finance, Clinical Engineering, or Facilities. Using Attainia, we can now quickly and efficiently communicate with each group in real time on a variety of issues, which produces quicker and more definitive results for the team.”

“The Affordable Care Act will require all hospitals to efficiently and effectively manage expenditures while diligently continuing to serve their communities,” notes Jeff Kleck, Chairman, Attainia. “Mercy has a clear vision of what they want their program to accomplish, and we’re excited to be a part of it. Together we will achieve a best in class approach to improving the capital equipment supply chain.”

About Mercy

Mercy is the sixth largest Catholic health care system in the U.S. and serves more than 3 million people annually. It is a highly integrated organization that includes 32 hospitals, 300 outpatient locations, 39,000 co-workers and 1,700 integrated physicians in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Mercy also has outreach ministries in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. For more information, visit www.mercy.net.

About Attainia

Attainia provides innovative solutions to manage the complex capital equipment lifecycle. Its systems are the world's most widely used healthcare planning and budgeting applications. Customers include some of the largest healthcare architectural and planning firms, as well as healthcare integrated delivery networks and individual hospitals. Subscribers engage in all phases of cloud-based project planning and budgeting while accessing Attainia’s comprehensive catalog of manufacturers, products and solutions at www.attainia.com.